The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 126

Then he told them the King’s commands, and they answered that by next morning all should be accomplished exactly as the King had ordered.

Who acts: Martin, fear, King · What happens: tell, answer, accomplish, order, command · To what, where: commands, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Martin, fear, King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 commands	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 King	case
8	commands	command	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	iobj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 answered	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 answered	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 answered	nsubj
12	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	parataxis
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 accomplished	mark
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 morning	case
15	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 morning	amod
16	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 accomplished	obl
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 accomplished	nsubj:pass
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 accomplished	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 accomplished	aux:pass
20	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 answered	ccomp
21	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	26 ordered	advmod
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 ordered	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 King	det
24	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 ordered	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 ordered	aux
26	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 accomplished	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Martin		the King's commands	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient command=Topic
2	answer speech: assert	past	fear					tree rules
3	accomplish	should · passive		all		morning		vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	order	past · perfect	the King				exactly property	vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	command		the King					nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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